Main Features of Interest

Cave of Monte Cucco strong>
La Grotta di Monte Cucco with its 30 kilometers of tunnels and over, and with a depth & agrave; Maximum pi & ugrave; 900 meters & egrave; one of the cave systems & more ugrave; important in Europe and surely one of the pi & ugrave; known and studied in the world. The natural spectacle that until now could only be appreciated by experienced cavers, now opening for about 800 meters of underground tourist route to discover who wants to live a unique sensory experience, a journey into the bowels of the earth that runs between stalactites and stalagmites, galleries, labyrinths and tunnels, discovering a world for many imagined. For more information font> visit www.grottamontecucco.umbria.it font>

Forra di Rio Freddo strong>
Deep carving marking mainly the eastern border of the park. It is an impressive gorge dug during the last million years by the stream Rio Freddo in the calcareous massif of Lias Inferiore.

Lawns & quot; cacuminal & quot; strong>
Grasslands as pastures. There are mostly grasses such as Festuca and the Bromo. In spring, when several flowers bloom, these meadows become a multicolored palette.

Cave Underground Valdorbia (Chip) strong>
A network of tens of kilometers of great galleries, artificially dug on the left and right of the River Sentino to obtain marl from cement and lithographic stone.

Beech strong>
Secular, such as those of the Mother of Beeches near Val di Ranco and those, even more & ugrave; larger, of Col d'Orlando, of Mt. Le Eaves, of Niccolo and the Horn of Catria.

Valle delle Prigioni strong>
Deep and engraved canyon deriving from the corrosion of the stream on the limestone, show for visitors which reaches its climax when the watercourse and the path cross the rocks of Scarpa del Diavolo.
& Nbsp; Rio Freddo and the Rio delle Prigioni strong>
Rich in clear waters as well, two major perennial streams at high altitudes of the Umbria Marche. River Chiascio, the river Sentino and the River Burano-Metauro, three of the most & ugrave; important rivers in central Italy.
Paleontological Site Valdorbia strong>
The fossils, stone footprints of organisms lived in very distant geological eras, are both a great and fascinating spectacle of nature and an inexhaustible source of study of what happened in the geological past. In the Park of Monte Cucco all this & egrave; even more & ugrave; astonishing and rich in finds. & nbsp; The paleontological material & egrave; contained in sedimentary rocks limestone and marl Jurassic-Cretaceous (200 to 120 million years ago). The horizons fossil pi & ugrave; interesting coming from Limestone Massif, the Red Ammonite (Middle-Upper Lias (194 million to 180 million years ago), the Grey Ammonitico (Malm 155 to 145 million years ago) and, more & ugrave; rarely, from Limestone Majolica. In these layers contains mainly the Ammonites, fossil guide Jurassic, the belemnites, brachiopods, the bivalves, gastropods and cephalopods.
Ammonites are as shells spiral wound, internally divided by thin walls in rooms. They were cephalopods (the tentatoli protruding from his head sticking out of the shell if necessary) very similar to the current Nautilus, which they shared with the floating system: the inner chambers were filled or emptied of water depending on whether, respectively, He wanted to get to the bottom or back to the surface. A Seal, the Centre for Studies and Research, & quot; & quot ;, Brascugli Anzia Mercuri has set up with the support of Bank of Umbria and in collaboration with the Department of Earth Sciences of the University & agrave; the University of Perugia and the City of Seal, on the occasion of the establishment of the Park of Monte Cucco, an exhibition of the finds pi & ugrave; significant, accompanied by studies carried out in the field and enriched with a scientific itinerary aimed at the disclosure of the subject.

With a climate as already described and the heavy rainfall it experiences, Monte Cucco Park could not possibly avoid being extremely green and lush. Indeed, the Park is covered with meadows and woods,...

Without harking back nostalgically to the situation which existed in the Umbria-Marche Apennines up to a few decades ago, let us examine the prevalence and variety of wild animals to be found in the Park...

The Grotto of Monte Cucco, with over 30 kilometres of galleries and a maximum depth of over 900 metres, is one of the most important subterranean cave systems in Europe and certainly one the best-known...

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